Samie Blasingame

Food in a world shaped by Climate Change

There is so much potential to help ease the climate crisis, as well as address many health and social issues, through a shift in the ways we choose to produce, consume and think about food. Recognizing the unjust consequences of industrialized food on people and planet, resulting in food and agriculture contributing more than a quarter of global greenhouse gases and to countless unnecessary diseases worldwide, community organisers and food justice activists like Samie Blasingame are insisting on critical and speculative conversations on food and agricultural production: “…𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 – 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘪𝘭 – 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘴.” Join us as Samie Blasingame guides us – and challenges us – to re-imagine future food systems that are local, community-managed, ecologically resilient, and globally equitable.

Samie Blasingame is a community-focused activist, researcher, and creative based in Berlin, passionate about environmental and climate justice, circular design, ecosystem thinking, and global food systems. Forever an advocate of people power, her work continues to express elements of community building and collective imagination.